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General Hazard Stevens has been chosen as the Memorial Day speaker at the exercises in Sanders Theatre on May 30. Entering Harvard in the class of 1864, he spent only one year at college before enlisting. From the office of lieutenant, he rose steadily through gallant and meritorious service until he was made brigadier general in 1865. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and has been prominent in politics ever since...
...story of the play deals with Roister Doister, a silly gallant, made to believe that he loves a young widow, Dame Custance, who is betrothed to a merchant named Goodlucke. Egged on by Merygreeke, a parasite, Roister Doister sends letters and tokens to his beloved who returns them and beats her servants for receiving them. On being openly scoffed at by the widow, Roister Doister determines to avenge himself by tearing down her house. In the meanwhile, Sym Suresby, Goodlucke's servant, hears of Roister Doister's wooing and warns his master of Custance's apparent infidelity. The widow summons...
...Ralph Roister Doister" marks the combination of classical and native elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...
...story of the play deals with the adventures of Bess Bridges, a tavernmaid at the Castle Tavern, Plymouth; and Spencer, a gallant, with whom she has fallen in love. Carrol, another gallant, insults Bess, for which Spencer slays him in a duel. For this he is obliged to flee from Plymouth. At night Spencer comes to the tavern to say farewell to Bess. He bids her go to the Windmill Tavern which he owns at Foy, and departs for Fayal with his friend Captain Goodlack. Bess goes to Foy and acts as mistress of the tavern. Among the gallants whom...
...returned with reinforcements without resting, found the men who had been left, and brought all hands out in safety. The party covered 1708 miles over the ice-fields in 126 days. During the last three days, Lieutenant Shackleton was almost continuously on the march. There is no more gallant record of leadership and rescue than this, and the man who made it deserves an enthusiastic welcome in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon...